They want you to be disillusioned because they believe that society itself cannot be nurtured but that the almighty markets are the only way society should be run and that the poor and downtrodden can wing it. That's what they believe.

So they spend a lot of effort making people disillusioned about the process, advocating for crash and burn philosophy, etc. They don't actually want to be part of the overall process of society.

The Republicans have, for years now, offered themselves up as a refuge for scared (white Christian) people. I really feel that now they are trying to actually exacerbate those fears.

An essential point that explains so much. Thank you, Josh

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Perfect antidote to the puerile and dishonest RW "We built that" meme.

And I loved the way he talked about his religious faith in an organic way, without turning it into a loyalty oath.

It's [font color=blue][font size=21pt]YES WE CAN![/font] [/font]

tempered by the wisdom that republican opposition is meaner, more ignorant, more cynical and more self-centered than ever. Their main goal appears to be to turn younger more idealistic people off to politics forever. I've got news for them. They aren't turning me off. They turn me on to vote for our President.